{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/section-30F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986/section-30F.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/44",
  "legislation_title": "Gas Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gas-act-1986",
  "path": "section/30F",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30F",
  "heading": "Recovery of penalties.",
  "text": "Where a penalty imposed under section 30A(1), or any portion of it, has not been paid by the date on which it is required to be paid and—\n(a) no application relating to the penalty has been made under section 30E during the period within which such an application can be made, or\n(b) an application has been made under that section and determined,\nthe Authority may recover from the regulated person , as a civil debt due to it, any of the penalty and any interest which has not been paid.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 30A-30F inserted (20.12.2000 for specified purposes otherwise 1.10.2001) by 2000 c. 27, s. 95(1); S.I. 2000/3343, art. 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-15); S.I. 2001/3266, arts. 1(2), 2, Sch. (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-20)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 30F substituted (10.11.2011) by The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2704), regs. 1(1), 37(4)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 28-30F applied (with modifications) by 1995 c. 45, s. 12(5) (as substituted (21.3.2012) by Energy Act 2011 (c. 16), ss. 92(10), 121(1); S.I. 2012/873, art. 2(b)(ii))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/44/section/30F",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:56:01.836902+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}